President Biden is attempting to extricate the U.S. from the wars we have been fighting since shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks almost 20 years ago. He may end up inadvertently reviving the foreign-policy perspective that kept those wars going for so long, at least among Republicans.
Inside the GOP, the path of least resistance is to oppose whatever Biden does abroad as feckless and weak. As my colleague notes, the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating rapidly. Kabul may soon evoke images of the fall of Saigon. Hawks are chirping loudly that exiting Afghanistan after two decades is the biggest foreign-policy mistake since … retrenchment in Iraq.
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